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If anyone did this nowadays they'd be facing 20 years minimum.

I miss Google Maps. The laggy pile of trash they have now makes me go to Bing when I want to map things out now.

We all have a timeline already. Acxiom has been tracking electronic spending and any other records they can get a hold of since 1969. Every adult in a first world country who isn't living off grid is tracked. Your profile is meticulously maintained and sold off to whoever wants it. They can infer women's menstrual cycles and let marketers know the best time to send targeted ads when they are most likely to have success. That is just the tip of the iceberg of the way these big data companies can influence your life.

The Middle East doesn't want or even understand the idea of absolute freedom. They want absolute control and will pay lip service to "Democracy" to maintain the illusion of freedom. Sort of like what the clowns running the US have done.

Looks fit to be Neelixed or Quarked though.

Because you need standardized bills that change infrequently to minimize hassles with automatic validators. The validation steps for coins don't require imaging their surface.

How can a dodgy subordinate claim invalidate the rest of the patent? If it was that easy there'd be a ton of software patents that could be tossed out en masse.

No. This is all export controlled technology.

It still seems awfully suspicious that their carefully constrained +/-200 range has an age multiplier of precisely 4. This smells like the use of BMI to gauge individuals when it was only ever meant to be an expedient way to measure populations.

Does Grandma's blog have to be regulated too?

You can't possibly remember what each and every file type icon is on a typical computer these days. It is also subject to change if you have multiple applications fighting for control of the same types of files. A text extension can give a language parseable hint of what it is without requiring memorization of all possible file types. We are also no longer limited to three characters. Longer extensions are perfectly usable and silly anachronisms like .htm should just be phased out.

The Gmail app supports POP and IMAP accounts now. Just use that and evict the Yahoo app.

Except for the circle of course.

The PBS snake oil salesmen that come out during the periodic beg-athons manage to lie while spewing out facts as half-truths that don't support their entire argument. A machine is unlikely to be able to distinguish these sort of lies never mind the hordes of gullible people that fall for them.

He's not a public figure as his only exposure is through media reporting on his activities. He is, however, a topic of newsworthy reporting and an image is part of that reporting.